Re: [Tigervnc-devel] Advanced TigerVNC features for 3D and streaming video workloads

2011-09-01 Thread Pierre Ossman
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:41:56 -0600 DRC dcomman...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: I don't follow. ALR is only ever relevant for one frame at a time. It won't ever be sent unless the connection is completely idle for a specified period of time, so it can't be sent on multiple frames because

Re: [Tigervnc-devel] Advanced TigerVNC features for 3D and streaming video workloads

2011-09-01 Thread DRC
On 9/1/11 3:34 AM, Pierre Ossman wrote: I don't follow. ALR is only ever relevant for one frame at a time. It won't ever be sent unless the connection is completely idle for a specified period of time, so it can't be sent on multiple frames because there aren't multiple frames for it to

Re: [Tigervnc-devel] Advanced TigerVNC features for 3D and streaming video workloads

2011-08-30 Thread Pierre Ossman
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 06:19:16 -0500 DRC dcomman...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: On 7/13/11 3:49 AM, Pierre Ossman wrote: (2) Automatic Lossless Refresh (ALR) -- This feature is similar to LR I'd like to believe this could be done in a way where it could always be turned on, or at least

Re: [Tigervnc-devel] Advanced TigerVNC features for 3D and streaming video workloads

2011-08-30 Thread DRC
On 8/30/11 6:06 AM, Pierre Ossman wrote: It already does this. Only the tiles that were previously sent with lossy compression are re-sent during an ALR. Yes, but I meant that we could also split those parts into smaller pieces. E.g. say that 50% of the screen is lossy. But that's a lot of

Re: [Tigervnc-devel] Advanced TigerVNC features for 3D and streaming video workloads

2011-07-19 Thread DRC
On 7/13/11 3:49 AM, Pierre Ossman wrote: This is not only disruptive but possibly even violates the fundamental nature of the RFB protocol, What makes you say that? The protocol doesn't mention anything about update rates, only that each update should represent a full screen change. So

Re: [Tigervnc-devel] Advanced TigerVNC features for 3D and streaming video workloads

2011-07-13 Thread Pierre Ossman
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:48:19 -0500 DRC dcomman...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Cendio has asked me to investigate, over the coming months, the possibility of merging in some of the more advanced features from TurboVNC into TigerVNC, but some of these are potentially disruptive, and I wanted

[Tigervnc-devel] Advanced TigerVNC features for 3D and streaming video workloads

2011-07-12 Thread DRC
Cendio has asked me to investigate, over the coming months, the possibility of merging in some of the more advanced features from TurboVNC into TigerVNC, but some of these are potentially disruptive, and I wanted to solicit opinions from the community, in case there might be a better approach than